Ellsworth and Marguerite Armstrong
Obituary
Graveside services for Ellsworth and Marguerite Armstrong
will be Monday.
Ellsworth Russell Armstrong was born to the late Olive
(Brown) and Coleman Armstrong in Plymouth, Iowa, on April 14, 1914. He moved to
Kansas as a young boy with his family. His only brother, Cecil, preceded him in
death.
Ellsworth attended Central Academy and Central College in
McPherson. He worked at Boeing in Wichita, and Hanna Furniture Company in
Newton, and did many painting, papering, drapery and carpentry projects through
the years. He and Marguerite Grout were married in 1939. They enjoyed 64 years
of marriage, living in McPherson, Wichita, and Newton, and Lubbock, Texas. He
died on Dec. 10, 2003, at the age of 89.
Born in 1914 in Concordia, Marguerite Mayme (Grout)
Armstrong always enjoyed her July 4 birthday with fireworks, parades and family
celebrations. She was the daughter of the late Eddie Elmer and Nellie (Logan)
Grout of McPherson. She attended Central Academy and College. Her sister,
Chloris Sorenson, and her brothers, Elmer Grout and Dean Grout, all preceded
her in death. She worked for Drs. Quantius and Price in McPherson, raised her
family, and later worked for Axtell Hospital in Newton.
The Armstrongs had two daughters, Mary Parker-Eves and Susan
Clowe. Marguerite was widowed in 2003. Her daughter, Mary, died in 2005.
Marguerite lived near her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Kim Clowe, in
Lubbock, Texas, and then moved with them to the Dallas area in 2010, where she
died on June 20, 2011, at the age of 96.
She loved to read and was quite a story teller, often
relating her childhood experiences and family history to her children and
grandchildren. She and her husband enjoyed many trips to visit family members.
She and Ellsworth are survived by Susan Clowe and her
husband, Kim, and their children, Megan Clowe of Mesquite, Texas, and Jeremy
Clowe and his wife, Adriana, of Houston, Karen Parker of San Jose, Calif., and
Sean Parker and his wife, Tina, of Watsonville, Calif. They also are survived
by two great-grandchildren. They were members of the Golden Plains Free
Methodist Church in Newton.
Graveside services for the Armstrongs will be at 10 a.m.
Monday at the McPherson Cemetery.
